I bought one of these, a City, in 2002ish and it's been gathering dust for 15 years after the battery and charger carked it. It was never really a success for me, as I wanted it to commute to work, which was a breeze going down, but pushed the original configuration to its limit, climbing up 600m over 13kms with a few 10 to 13% microwalls to contend with. The 26k round trip was the range of the original battery, not that it did much rolling down hill for the first 13km, but the grind home took about 45 mins.
In context, without the assistance I could never get home under 55mins and was usually around 60mins. One shitfull windy day it took me closer to 100mins to get home and totally shattered my morale.
More recently I've installed a 48v 500w front hub and a TSDZ2 48v 500 mid drive to two other bikes, figuring that if the 'legal' 24v/250w spec was only just good enough, double it will be equal to the task and I now have the ebike bug as I've cracked the 30min home commute mark and sit around 35mins for the 150 or so round trips, 4000km, I've done. In a car it is 15 to 20, so I'm happy with the time and the workout.
So now, I want to see if I can resurrect the Enjoy. The motor runs so I know all I need is a YK controller and a throttle and replacing all the bits I filched over the years but---
Just wanting to know if the Aprilia will survive 48v with one of the YinYun or YK 48v controllers, so I don't have to buy another battery right away. I've seen that 36v was the power hack of choice ten years ago and am curious about the longevity.
So if Tonyontopofabighill is still here, was your last-ish post in 2018 about a 48v battery... given the 54v starting point?
If so, is it still going? I have a 48v to 24v voltage regulator so I can easily step my batteries down and run the bike on 24v again, but it was a grind.
As the bike has been scoffolding for spider webs for 20 years and stripped for peripheral parts for other projects, my thinking is, get the contoller and if it lives, it's Lazerus and if it dies it status hasn't changed. But I'd love to give it a second, better, life.